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Homeowners fighting foreclosure have two new regulations to help them.

Modified: 03/17/10 11:26:20 PM

Real Deals: With the unemployment rate still high and companies still downsizing, these are difficult times for many Triangle office landlords.

Modified: 03/18/10 06:45:28 AM

Spring housing boom? Hope is in bloom

Lynda Franklin has been house-hunting for about six months now, looking for a larger home with a really great mud room.

Modified: 03/15/10 09:29:56 AM

Foreclosure supplicants wait

Hundreds of thousands of homeowners are in limbo waiting to find out whether they will be accepted for the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.

Modified: 03/13/10 04:50:43 AM

$2.8 million in refunds going out

A company that provides financing for manufactured homes has agreed to refund $2.8 million to North Carolina homeowners and pay a $750,000 civil penalty in response to an investigation by the state's Office of the Commissioner of Banks.

Modified: 03/09/10 11:56:09 PM

Toll Brothers now owns Hasentree

With its purchase of the Hasentree golf community, Toll Brothers is making a bold bet on the long-term viability of the luxury home market in northern Wake County.

Modified: 02/27/10 05:17:05 AM

Cary relaxes sign rules to spur home sales

The Cary Town Council on Thursday agreed to temporarily relax its strict sign rules in an effort to spur home sales.

Modified: 02/26/10 11:04:23 AM

360-unit Cary complex sold

An Atlanta real estate firm has purchased a Cary apartment complex for $34 million, the Triangle's second-largest commercial real estate transaction in the past 14 months.

Modified: 02/23/10 10:50:01 AM

Raleigh housing market ranks first

The Triangle has received more affirmation that it is better-positioned than most regions to emerge quickly from this recession.

Modified: 02/19/10 01:16:50 AM

House sales rise in January

The Triangle housing market began 2010 by recording its fifth consecutive month of strengthening sales.

Modified: 02/18/10 12:08:21 AM

Highwoods profit meets expectation

Highwoods Properties, the largest suburban office landlord in the Southeast, reported fourth-quarter results late Wednesday that met Wall Street estimates.

Modified: 02/11/10 10:24:15 AM

Cary apartments sold for $40.5 million

Equity Residential, a Chicago real estate investment trust that has been shedding its Triangle assets over the past two years, has sold two Cary apartment buildings to a New York investment firm for $40.5 million.

Modified: 03/17/10 08:54:54 PM

Fraud defendants reach terms

Two more defendants in the Village of Penland real estate scheme in Mitchell County have signed consent agreements that will require them to turn over assets and money from the project.

Modified: 03/13/10 01:13:34 AM

Plan could give NCSU new neighbors

Real Deals: A developer is moving ahead with plans to transform an industrial area between N.C. State University and downtown into a mix of apartments, townhouses and shops.

Modified: 03/11/10 06:52:57 AM

Foreclosure filings in Triangle jump

Foreclosure filings in Durham, Johnston, Orange and Wake counties totaled 1,516 through the first two months of 2010, a 72 percent increase over the same period the prior year, the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts reports.

Modified: 03/03/10 07:27:24 AM

A time of the signs: Cary eases rules

The Cary Town Council this week agreed to temporarily relax its strict sign rules in an effort to spur home sales.

Modified: 02/27/10 05:14:46 AM

In housing, smaller is better

Real Deals: For a dozen years, Sarah Susanka, a Raleigh-based author, has been telling whoever would listen that a bigger house isn't necessarily a better house.

Modified: 02/25/10 04:06:14 PM

Fewer home loans going bad

Fewer home loans are going bad these days, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday in its quarterly delinquency report.

Modified: 02/20/10 12:39:55 AM

Finishing West Village

Real Deals: After a rough year that saw the former Duke basketball stars facing lawsuits from angry lenders, Christain Laettner and Brian Davis remain confident that they will be involved in completing the third and final phase of their visionary West Village project in downtown Durham.

Modified: 02/18/10 08:43:13 AM

Loans are scarce; sales are lagging

Real Deals: The amount of commercial real estate sold in the Triangle in 2009 was $407.8 million, according to CB Richard Ellis' Raleigh office. That was 75 percent less than in 2008 and 85 percent off the market peak in 2007.

Modified: 02/11/10 06:53:30 AM